IEEE eNotice

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IEEE e-Notice

• IEEE Region 4 Meeting
• Jan 31 Feb 1, 2004
• Presenter Bob Evanich, R4 Communications Chair

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What is IEEE e-Notice?

• IEEE e-Notice is an electronic newsletter
  subscription service that was piloted in
  2003.e-Notice was created for IEEE
  organizational units to facilitate email
  distribution of newsletters and meeting notices.

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What is IEEE e-Notice?

• The source of email addresses for e-Notice is the
  IEEE Membership Database, new members are
  automatically added, members who move to a new
  Section are automatically moved, and deceased
  members are automatically omitted.

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IEEE e-Notice Basic Process

• Organizational unit (OU) registers for the
  service.
• Staff creates the email list from the IEEE
  Membership Database
• OU submits the mail piece.
• IEEE staff sends the mail piece using a
  commercial outbound email system called BoldFish.
  

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IEEE e-Notice Basic Process

• Staff receives and handles bounced messages.
• Each message that is sent includes an unsubscribe
  URL.
• Members who unsubscribe from the list and will
  automatically be omitted from all subsequent
  mailings for that particular list.

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IEEE e-Notice Basic Process

• Volunteers are provided message delivery
  statistics
• of successful messages sent
• of bounces
• http//www.ieee.org/organizations/vols/e-notice/in
  dex.html

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Questions ??
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IEEE Entity Web Hosting

• IEEE Region 4 Meeting
• Jan 31 Feb 1, 2004
• Presenter Bob Evanich, R4 Communications Chair

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IEEE Entity Web Hosting

• This service is intended to meet the needs of
  IEEE entities who want to develop, create and
  maintain their own web site on an IEEE host.

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IEEE Entity Web Hosting

• The general philosophy is that posting entities
  will be responsible for their content, its
  maintenance and its conformance to IEEE policy.

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IEEE Entity Web Hosting

• Entities are expected to choose a single
  webmaster who is skilled in managing web content.
  This webmaster will be the entity contact and the
  only one authorized to post content to the web
  site. The webmaster will be expected to work with
  IEEE staff to insure that site security measures
  are effective.
• http//ewh.ieee.org/

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IEEE Entity Web Hosting

• Creating a Web Page
• Using an HTML editor such as Frontpage,
  Dreamweaver, etc
• Simple Text Editor requires knowledge of HTML
  Tags

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IEEE Entity Web Hosting

• How to publish your page
• FTP

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Questions ??
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Regional Communications

• IEEE Region 4 Meeting
• Jan 31 Feb 1, 2004
• Presenter Bob Evanich, R4 Communications Chair

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Regional Communications

• What information do you want from R4?

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Section Meeting Notices

• IEEE Region 4 Meeting
• Jan 31 Feb 1, 2004
• Presenter Bob Evanich, R4 Communications Chair

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Section Meeting Notices

• Notice of meetings in adjacent sections
• Options
• Links to Section web sites
• Sections Calendars posted at R4s web site
• File on sections web sites that creates a page on
  R4 web site